Release Guide

Here you will find a collection of notes and instructions on doing a release of Apache MetaModel. The page is largely written by Release Engineers (RE) as a note document while conducting releases based on the links below:

Release steps:

Check the CHANGES.md file - it should be up to date and it should refer to the version number that you're about to release.

Set <server> elements in Maven's settings.xml

<!-- To publish a snapshot of some part of Maven -->
<server>
<id>apache.snapshots.https</id>
<username>APACHE_USERNAME</username>
<password>APACHE_PASSWORD</password>
</server>
<!-- To stage a release of some part of Maven -->
<server>
<id>apache.releases.https</id>
<username>APACHE_USERNAME</username>
<password>APACHE_PASSWORD</password>
</server>

Now call for a VOTE in the MetaModel dev@ mailing list. Here's an example email you can use as a template:

Subject: [VOTE] Apache Metamodel release 4.3.1

Hi All,
Please vote on releasing the following candidate as Apache Metamodel version 4.3.1.
The Git tag to be voted on is MetaModel-4.3.1:
https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=metamodel.git;a=commit;h=f4d6de53803a47e6b6ad67f8043c073da3b5fbff
The source artifact to be voted on is:
http://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachemetamodel-1005/org/apache/metamodel/MetaModel/4.3.1/MetaModel-4.3.1-source-release.zip
Parent directory (including MD5, SHA1 hashes etc.) of the source is:
http://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachemetamodel-1005/org/apache/metamodel/MetaModel/4.3.1/
Release artifacts are signed with the following key:
https://people.apache.org/keys/committer/kaspersor.asc
Release engineer public key id: 1FE1C2F5
The staging Maven repository for this release can be found at:
http://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachemetamodel-1005
Please vote on releasing this package as Apache MetaModel 4.3.1.
The vote is open for 72 hours.
[ ] +1 Release this package as Apache MetaModel 4.3.1
[ ] -1 Do not release this package because ...
Thank you in advance for participating.
Regards,
Kasper Sørensen

Once the voting period has passed, send out a RESULT email with the vote results.